A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Dorozhychi station
The Children’s Railway (official name: Small South-Western Railway) was opened in August 1953 in Syretsky Park, which was then still a wasteland next to Babi Yar. It was built through the efforts of railroad workers of the South-Western Railway and Komsomol members. The first train on the children’s railway was driven by driver Pyotr Krivonos, … Read more
The Kiev Television Center is a complex of buildings with an area of 15 hectares, including a 24-story building-tower (“pencil” in the people) and studio blocks. “Karandash”, with an area of 87,500 m², contains: 9 blocks of the hardware-studio complex, 17 video-hardware complexes, 6 television studios, 14 rehearsal halls, a cinema-concert hall for 450 seats … Read more
The Kiev TV Tower is a metal spatial lattice free-standing high-rise structure with a height of 385 meters. This is the tallest lattice structure in the world. The tower was built on the site of an old Jewish cemetery according to the design of the UkrNIIproektstalkonstruktsiya institute (they also designed Paton Bridge, Ukraine Palace, station … Read more
The park, with an area of 11.5 hectares, represents the remains of natural relief and vegetation (deciduous forest) in the upper reaches of Kirillovsky Creek. It is dominated by linden, oak, birch, aspen and elm. The undergrowth here is formed by hazel, warty and European euonymus, hawthorn and others. A relict species, large horsetail, has … Read more
Babi Yar is a tract in the northwestern part of Kiev, which gained sad worldwide fame as a place of mass executions of civilians, mainly Jews, Gypsies, Kiev Karaites, as well as Soviet prisoners of war, carried out by German occupation forces and Ukrainian collaborators during the Great Patriotic War. The first execution took place … Read more